With demand for cellular telephones soaring, Motorola issearching for a 100-acre parcel of land for an additional productionplant in the Chicago area.
The company is looking for land in the west and southwestsuburbs, apparently shunning expansion of its 1 million-square-footcellular phone manufacturing plant in Libertyville.
The company has scouted sites in Du Page, Kane and Will countiesfor a facility. It already employs 16,000 people throughout thestate, including more than 3,000 in Libertyville.
Motorola controls 40 percent of the $2 billion handset market.The cellular phone market, which has grown from 5,000 U.S.subscribers in 1983 to more than 13 …
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